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<date value='1863-01-02'>Friday, January 2, 1863.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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George P. Strong, resident of St. Louis, delivers to President letter
from Gen. Curtis regarding order to exile Rev. McPheeters.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 2 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:33-34.</bibl>
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Gen. Butler at White House in evening for conference.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 January 1863.</bibl>
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Says President asks him to go to Mississippi and organize Negro troops.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 549-50.</bibl>
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President submits to Congress expediency of appointing an acting head
of government department.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A58' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 2 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:34-35.</bibl>
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